Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Eldorado; Or, Adventure In The Path Of Empire
Author: Bayard TaylorEldorado, Or Adventures in the Path of Empire
Author: Bayard TaylorEldorado
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, Via Panama, ...
Author: Bayard TaylorEldorado; Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire; Comprising a Voyage to California, Via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey
Author: Bayard TaylorEldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of the Empire
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire
Author: Bayard TaylorPublisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
American poet, literary critic, translator, and travel author, Bayard Taylor (1825 – 1878) led a remarkable life and left a fascinating legacy. His travel books are known for their keen details, humor, and adventure. His poetry still stands up and his translations were at one time considered some of the finest. In 1849, Taylor made a trip to California and Mexico. Throughout the journey he kept detailed accounts of adventures, mishaps, happy times, and interesting characters he met along the way. In the tradition of classic travel writers, Taylor takes you along to a fascinating world that no longer exists. Gold prospecting in California and surviving robbers in Mexico were just part of the exciting adventures Taylor encountered. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire
Author: Bayard TaylorBayard Taylor
Author: Liam CorleyPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 161148572X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) was a nineteenth-century American who combined in his writings and career a catalog of accomplishments and creations that made him one of the most celebrated literary men of his time. The range and significance of Taylor’s oeuvre explains his growing importance today to scholars working in the fields of American studies, gender and queer theory, and the aesthetics of racial and class identities. In less than 35 years, he wrote seventeen volumes of poetry, four novels, eight critical works and translations of German classics, nineteen travel narratives, innumerable magazine essays, stories, and reviews, and thousands of letters to friends, admirers, hostile reviewers, business acquaintances, and intimate male companions. His extraordinary success on the public lecture circuit made him one of the best-known men of his day. Taylor's diplomatic career enhanced his reputation and influence as a travel writer and included service as a writer for the Perry Expedition to Japan, as a charge d’affaires to Russia during the Civil War, and ambassador to Germany in 1878. This analysis of Taylor’s life and works helps to explain three important shifts in American culture: the contradictory development of American ethnocentrism and cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth century; the impact of homophobia and homophilia upon American literary production, criticism, and culture; and the inspirational role played by poetry within a religious and economically-driven society. The introduction describes Taylor's changing fortunes within literary history and presents a methodological approach to the Genteel tradition that recovers its distinctive aesthetic and social values and explains how Taylor is its most winning and significant representative. Taylor was a key figure in the genealogy of American interactions with the Islamic world, and his travel writing demonstrates how individual advancement in an egalitarian society can be linked with aggressive imperialism abroad. Taylor’s novels display a subtle pattern of transgressive sexuality and demonstrate how Taylor's manipulation of reputation and genteel aesthetics created a space for individual expression and freedom. Taylor’s 1870 novel, Joseph and His Friend, is frequently cited as America's first gay novel. This book's analysis of Taylor’s poetry draws the strands of egalitarian racialization and male-male intimacy together with his abiding concern with regional American identities and the mixed influences of religious subcultures.
Nevada Place Names
Author: Helen S. CarlsonPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874174031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. Out of print for some years, the book was reprinted in 1999.